private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care … generosity of state tax subsidies for private long-term care insurance to determine whether tax subsidies increase private …

This paper provides empirical evidence of Medicaid crowd out of demand for private long-term care insurance. Using data … on the near- and young-elderly in the Health and Retirement Survey, our central estimate suggests that a $10,000 decrease … insurance coverage by 1.1 percentage points. These estimates imply that if every state in the country moved from their current …

-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans. Our analysis …We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non …

First-year insurer participation in the Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs) established by the Affordable Care Act is … insurance market), we study the impact of competition on premiums. We exploit variation in ratings-area-level competition … participated. If all insurers active in each state's individual insurance market in 2011 had participated in all ratings areas in …

This paper investigates the effects of market-wide changes in health insurance by examining the single largest change … in health insurance coverage in American history: the introduction of Medicare in 1965. I estimate that the impact of … insurance would have predicted. Consistent with a disproportionately larger impact of aggregate changes in health insurance, the …

health insurance for the elderly had no discernible impact on their mortality. However, we find that the introduction of … public health insurance programs, in addition to any indirect benefits from an effect on health. …We study the impact of the introduction of one of the major pillars of the social insurance system in the United States …

dimension of differentiation, as in the latter approach. We illustrate our findings' relevance under current health care reforms …

There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes …, and 12 percent of U.S. health care spending, are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. …

I use the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance market to examine the dynamics of firm interaction with consumers … on an insurance exchange. Enrollment data show that consumers face switching frictions leading to inertia in plan choice …